Important Note: In all of the following areas, the candidate should choose a book of the author’s work. The poems listed (if any) are especially recommended, but are not meant to represent the candidate’s entire reading of any given author. Renaissance Poetry Donne Songs and Sonnets. Elegies (XL XIX), Satire Ill, “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, “ Holy Sonnets: 1, 5, 7, 10, 14, “Hymn to God, My God, in His Sickness”

Wordsworth “An Evening Walk,” “Lines (Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1978),” The Prelude, “Resolution and Independence,” “London, 1802,” “Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” “Ode (Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood),” “Mutability,” “There is an Eminence,” “The World Is Too Much with Us,” “Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg,” Lucy poems and other selections from the Lyrical Ballads.
Pre-Twentieth Century American PoetryBradstreet “Contemplations,” “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” 'To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “Upon the Burning of Our House”

Bryant “Thanatopsis,” “The Prairies,” “Hymn of the City”

Dickinson Final Harvest (selection from Complete Poems)

Emerson “Concord Hymn,” “Hamatreya,” “Brahma,” “Days”

Freneau “The Indian Burying Ground,” “To Sir Toby,” “The Wild Honey Suckle,” “One the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature”